The COVID-19 Outbreak in Iran; The First Patient with a Definite Diagnosis

Mohammad Reza Ghadir ¹ , Ali Ebrazeh ², Javad Khodadadi ³, Masumeh Zamanlu ⁴, Saeed Shams ⁵, Maryam Nasiri ³, Alireza Koohpaei ⁶, Mohammad Abbasinia ⁷, Ehsan Sharifipour ⁴^* , Samad EJ Golzari ⁸

¹ Gastroenterology and Hepatology Diseases Research Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
² Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
³ Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
⁴ Neuroscience Research Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
⁵ Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
⁶ Research Center for Environmental Pollutants, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
⁷ Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran
⁸ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran

*Corresponding Author: *Corresponding Author: Ehsan Sharifipour, MD; Deputy of research and technology, Department of Neurology, Neurosciences Research Center (NSRC), Qom University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Shahid Beheshti St., Qom, Iran. Tel: +98-25-36122436; Fax: +98-25-36122946; Email: , Email: Sharifipour.e@gmail.com

Abstract

The novel coronavirus, formerly named as 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) caused a rapidly spreading epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Wuhan, China and thereafter, progressed globally to form a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in numerous countries; and now confirmed cases are reported from several provinces of Iran. Now various medical centers, clinicians and researchers around the world share their data and experiences about COVID-19 in order to participate in the global attempt of controlling the pandemic. The current report investigates the clinical presentations and paraclinical findings of the first confirmed cases and mortalities in the initiation of the outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran.

Cite this article as: Ghadir MR, Ebrazeh A, Khodadadi J, Zamanlu M, Shams S, Nasiri M, et al. The COVID-19 outbreak in Iran; the first patient with a definite diagnosis. Arch Iran Med. 2020;23(7):503–504. doi: 10.34172/aim.2020.48.